Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke during his presidential campaign promising American citizens a “New Deal.” This New Deal brought new ways to deal with the Great Depression. The country desperately needed a new leader, and Roosevelt convinced him. The New Deal created organizations to help people in need. Programs such as the Public Works Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Agricultural Adjustment Act helped provide jobs to those who found themselves unemployed during the early years of the Depression. As useful as these organizations have been, they have also created controversy. People helped by these institutions, like Jane Yoder's father, were considered by the wealthiest to be "lazy people, skinny people as a rule." Those who kept their jobs during the depression degraded the people who received government work assistance. Among the wealthy people who kept their jobs was Martin DeVries. A man upset because he was paying taxes when “everyone was asking for relief, our money to help them.” DeVries was afraid that more people in American society would not feel the need to work and that the government would take care of them. Controversy over whether those seeking opportunities through government assistance were lazy unemployed stopped the progress of many programs. Diana Morgan saw this firsthand while working in a program office. The rich of the south